The historic center of Manizales is a crucial point of reference to understand, to a large extent, the existing imaginary within the city, since this, historically, was the setting where the foundation and location of the city took place, but it has also been the landscape on which countless milestones and historical periods have occurred. That is why, the main objective of the research is to analyze the way in which the Manizales residents perceive their territory in the historic center under different temporalities that respond to historical, economic, social and political events that construct reality. It is intended to define diachronically the social, patrimonial, symbolic and daily construction of the historic center of Manizales, articulating all these elements under the concept of territoriality, memory around the territory, since, in this, the key will be found to define histori...